There are five new entries as well as a new number one on this week’s Top Thirty Album Chart…

1. (2) Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Nuclear Blast)
2. (3) House of Lords – Saints And Sinners (Frontiers Music)
3. (4) Master – On The Seventh Day God Made… Master (Hammerheart Records)
4. (-) Raven – Leave ‘Em Bleeding (SPV/Steamhammer)
5. (1) Dynazty – Final Advent (AFM)
6. (6) Ström – Ström (Black Lodge)
7. (7) Francesco Marras – It’s Me! (Hell Tour Productions)
8. (8) Avi Rosenfeld – After The Battle (Own Label)
9. (11) Silent Knight – Full Force (Own Label)
10. (-) Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 (Sony)
11. (12) Talas – 1985 (Metal Blade)
12. (9) Harnish – Some Killers (Own Label)
13. (-) Living Wreckage – Living Wreckage (M-Theory Audio)
14. (-) Venom Inc. – There’s Only Black (Nuclear Blast)
15. (13) David Readman – Medusa (Own Label)
16. (15) Slyder Smith & The Oblivion Kids – Charm Offensive (Ray Records)
17. (16) Marco Mendoza – New Direction (Mighty Music)
18. (14) Tyrants of Chaos – Relentless Thirst For Power (Own Label)
19. (5) White Spirit – Right Or Wrong (Conquest Music)
20. (18) H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure (earMUSIC)
21. (17) Hailmary – Disturbing The Peace (Eonian Records)
22. (28) Herbstlethargie – Melancholie im Blattfall (Northern Silence Productions)
23. (21) The Dead Daisies – Radiance (SPV/Steamhammer)
24. (20) Alcatrazz – Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 2 1983-84 (Cherry Red)
25. (24) Desolation Angels – Burning Black (Skol Records)
26. (25) Five Finger Death Punch – Afterlife (Better Noise Music)
27. (26) Mourir – Disgrace (Throatruiner Records)
28. (27) Outshine – The Awakening (Rockshots Records)
29. (10) Cats In Space – Kickstart The Sun (Harmony Factory)
30. (-) Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Cherry Red)

THIS TIME LAST YEAR:
1. Kristoffer Gildenlow – Let Me Be A Ghost (New Joke Music)
2. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu (Parlophone)
3. Fiction Syxx – Ghost Of My Fathers Past (MR Records)
4. Shadecrown – Solitarian (Inverse Records)
5. Hawkwind – Somnia (Cherry Red Records)